Google to show off AI and Pixel gadget innovations
Google is expected to enrich its popular online services with more artificial intelligence on Wednesday as it scrambles to catch up with rival Microsoft despite fears that AI poses a threat to society.
Leaks ahead of the internet titan's annual developers conference have revealed that Google will also show off new gadgets, including a foldable smartphone, and reveal additions to its Pixel line of devices.
Most attention will focus on Google's expected release of a more muscular version of its Bard generative AI being put to work across the platform.
Microsoft upped the pressure last week by expanding public access to its generative AI programs -- including the Bing chatbot -- that have put the company founded by Bill Gates back on the map as a big tech disruptor.
The services have been enhanced with the ability to work with images as well as text, and Microsoft intends to add video to the mix, according to executives.
Google is expected to follow suit in AI announcements at its annual "I/O" software developers conference held a short walk from its headquarters in the Silicon Valley city of Mountain View.
A more powerful large language model built into the heart of Bard will likely be unveiled, along with expanded use of the AI powers in Gmail, work software, search and more, according to media reports.
Large language models involve machine learning applied to massive amounts of data harvested from the internet.
Generative AI can be prompted to quickly deliver written tasks from poetry and homework to computer code. It can also be prompted to create images or video.
Risks from AI include its potential uses for fraud, with voice clones, deep-fake videos and convincing written messages.
A prominent computer scientist dubbed "the
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